"cumbent" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more cumbent",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most cumbent",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1841, Matthew Holbeche Bloxam, The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.:",
          "text": "Altar-tombs with cumbent effigies were painted so as to correspond in tone with the colours displayed on the walls; the pavement of encaustic tiles, of different devices, was interspersed with sepulchral slabs and inlaid brasses; and screen-work, niches for statuary, mouldings, and sculpture of different degrees of excellence, abounded.",
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          "ref": "1852, Mrs. David Osborne, The World of Waters:",
          "text": "The only tree growing in Spitzbergen is the dwarf willow, which rises to the vast height of two inches! towering with great pride above the mosses, lichens, and a few other cumbent plants.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1870, Epes Sargent, The Woman Who Dared:",
          "text": "While thus she mused, she started at a cry: \"Ah! here's our siren, cumbent on the rocks!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1888, Daniel Defoe, From London to Land's End:",
          "text": "Hereford is the dirtiest old city I have seen in England, yet pretty large; the streets are irregular and the houses old, and its cathedral a reverend old pile, but not beautiful; the niches of the walls of the church are adorned with the figures of its bishops as big as the life, in a cumbent posture, with the year of their interments newly painted over.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "lying down, recumbent"
      ],
      "id": "en-cumbent-en-adj-5rHlXtIi",
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          "lying down",
          "lie down"
        ],
        [
          "recumbent",
          "recumbent"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkʌmbənt/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cumbent"
}

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    {
      "form": "more cumbent",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most cumbent",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1841, Matthew Holbeche Bloxam, The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.:",
          "text": "Altar-tombs with cumbent effigies were painted so as to correspond in tone with the colours displayed on the walls; the pavement of encaustic tiles, of different devices, was interspersed with sepulchral slabs and inlaid brasses; and screen-work, niches for statuary, mouldings, and sculpture of different degrees of excellence, abounded.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1852, Mrs. David Osborne, The World of Waters:",
          "text": "The only tree growing in Spitzbergen is the dwarf willow, which rises to the vast height of two inches! towering with great pride above the mosses, lichens, and a few other cumbent plants.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1870, Epes Sargent, The Woman Who Dared:",
          "text": "While thus she mused, she started at a cry: \"Ah! here's our siren, cumbent on the rocks!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1888, Daniel Defoe, From London to Land's End:",
          "text": "Hereford is the dirtiest old city I have seen in England, yet pretty large; the streets are irregular and the houses old, and its cathedral a reverend old pile, but not beautiful; the niches of the walls of the church are adorned with the figures of its bishops as big as the life, in a cumbent posture, with the year of their interments newly painted over.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "lying down, recumbent"
      ],
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          "lying down",
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        [
          "recumbent",
          "recumbent"
        ]
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkʌmbənt/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cumbent"
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